BorderWare Discusses Internet Telephony Security Threats at Ziff Davis Media Security Virtual Tradeshow.DALLAS & TORONTO -- BorderWare Technologies, the benchmark provider of messaging security solutions, today announced the company has been invited to speak on the security vulnerabilities of Internet telephony Another term for IP telephony and VoIP. In the late 1990s, some people made a distinction between Internet Telephony and VoIP: Internet telephony referred to voice over the public Internet, while VoIP referred to voice over private IP networks. at the Ziff Davis Media (Ziff Davis Media Inc., New York, www.ziffdavis.com) A leading integrated media company that serves the computer, videogame and consumer lifestyle markets. Its offerings include PC Magazine and the PCMag.com Network, which includes PCMag.com, ExtremeTech. Security Virtual Tradeshow. The virtual tradeshow brings together the top security experts in the technology industry for a two-day online event focused exclusively on the most pressing IT security issues. BorderWare is participating in a live Hot Button Panel discussion on "Protecting VOIP (Voice Over IP) A digital telephone service that uses the public Internet as well as private backbones instead of the traditional telephone network. Many companies, including Vonage, 8x8 and AT&T (CallVantage), typically offer calling within the country for a From Hackers, Spoofers and Malicious Threats" on Wednesday December 1, 2004 at 4:30pm Eastern Standard Time. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Elliot Markowitz, Editorial Director, Ziff Davis Media eSeminars: "The move to VOIP phones is gaining momentum, but it is riskier than you may have imagined. Corporations and individuals embracing VOIP can realize substantial cost savings by utilizing the Internet and bypassing expensive long-distance communication providers. But what is not commonly known is that such a move can open up the floodgates for hackers to infiltrate phone conversations and steal confidential data just as if they broke into an IT system. Spammers can also flood the system with massive denial of service attacks rendering the phone system useless. VOIP experts and service providers will lead this panel discussion and exploit the weaknesses in VOIP security, as well as outline practices and technology steps to keep your phone conversations private." Persons interested in the events scheduled for the two-day virtual show can register for free at: www.securityshow.eseminarslive.com/eng/nonAuthGeneric/redirect.cfm?sec tionID=ziffDavis/zdregistration.cfm (Due to the length of this URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. , it may be necessary to copy and paste To copy files from one location to another or to copy text and images from one document to another. All modern operating systems and applications have a copy and paste capability that is typically selected from an Edit menu. See cut and paste and Win Copy between windows. this hyperlink into your Internet browser's URL address field.) About BorderWare Founded in 1994, BorderWare Technologies Inc. is the benchmark provider of messaging security solutions for enterprises and government. The company's flagship MXtreme Mail Firewall is the market-leading appliance for securing an organization's email infrastructure. Similarly, BorderWare's SIPassure SIP Firewall delivers the benefits of Internet telephony by managing and protecting the flow of VoIP-specific SIP communications for enterprises and carriers. BorderWare has more than 6000 customers with systems deployed at various military, intelligence, defense, national security agencies, and corporations worldwide. The company has developed affiliations and partnerships with some of the industry's most prominent companies in Internet infrastructure, security and messaging including Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , F5 Networks, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , RSA Security, Research In Motion (RIM), Symantec and Kaspersky Labs. BorderWare is a private company headquartered in Toronto, Canada with offices in London, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Dubai, Ottawa, Dallas, San Jose, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , and Washington DC. For more information visit http://www.borderware.com or call 1-877-814-7900. (C) 2004 BorderWare Technologies Inc. All Rights Reserved. BorderWare, MXtreme and SIPassure are trademarks of BorderWare Technologies Inc. All company and/or product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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